Looking Through Great-Grandmother's Eyes

By Geraldine Lee SusiNine-year-old Piper Louise Conrad is sure that the summer of 1943 will be the worst summer of her life. The world is at war, her father is fighting in North Africa, and Piper must spend three whole months at her great-grandmother’s farm in Catlett, Virginia. Grandma Jessie doesn’t seem at all like the sweet old lady Piper’s mother described. She’s bossy and cranky. She doesn’t even seem to like Piper. But Piper is about to discover that she and her great-grandmother have more in common than she thinks. In fact, Grandma Jessie holds the key to a family history Piper never knew she had. Maybe, just maybe, this summer might not be so bad after all…

Looking Through Great-Grandmother’s Eyes is the third installment in the Harding family trilogy, a series inspired by the author’s family history. To read more about Grandma Jessie and her family, check out the prequels to this book, Looking for Pa and Looking Back.

About the Author

Geraldine Lee Susi moved to Virginia in 1978 and taught as a reading specialist in Fairfax County Public Schools for nineteen years. In time, she was inspired to bring Virginia history to life through children’s chapter books. Jeri and her husband have four children and eleven grandchildren and enjoy traveling the world and bicycling. Jeri’s other interests include skiing, gardening, golf, sewing, painting, drawing, and giving history and writing presentations for young people and adults. Looking Through Great-Grandmother’s Eyes is her sixth book.

Praise for Looking Through Great-Grandmother's Eyes

“Geraldine Susi’s affecting story for young readers is about a girl who, during World War II, is sent to spend a summer on her great-grandmother’s Virginia farm. What at first promises to be a lonely, dull routine of chores and little else turns memorable as her elderly relative recounts stories of the family’s colorful history and teaches her the skills of rural self-sufficiency. Pacifism and feminism underpin the old woman’s knowledge of the world, but grow so naturally out of her experience that they don’t feel like isms at all.”—Robert Wilson, editor of The American Scholar and author of The Explorer King

“With a master storyteller’s eloquence, Geraldine Susi weaves an incredible tale…. As Piper and her great-grandmother travel through time, you find yourself living right along with them. You will not want to put this book down until the last word is read, and then, you will want to read it again.”—Carol C. Bolduc, classroom teacher and retired Gifted Talented Resource teacher

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